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Sun. 9/17/17 8:52pm
Gaylord Fields:
@katie: I thought of you when I selected the Withered Hand song. I'm so glad it worked to conjure you here!

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Sun. 9/17/17 8:54pm
geezerette:
My husband and I were listening to something from the archives last night and he said,"Every DJ on this station seems to have a Ph.D. in musicology!". Told him that was just scratching the surface.

Sun. 9/17/17 8:55pm
JakeGould:
WFMU DJs are archivists as well whether they know it or not.

I should give credit. The person who told me about the "Mary, marry, merry" thing was Chris M. I've tested it on my boyfriend and other Californians, and it's bizarre to me that there's no difference in their pronunciation!

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Sun. 9/17/17 9:17pm
Gaylord Fields:
@ Fox (Rā-chul): I have a California friend who studies linguistics, and not only does she pronounce all three the same, she also can't tell that I pronounce all three distinctively (which I definitely do) despite her training!

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Sun. 9/17/17 9:27pm
melinda:
I pronounce them all the same but I can hear the difference in NY/NJ speech, at least between marry and the other two. Y'all are funny.

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Sun. 9/17/17 9:35pm
BronwynB:
@gaylord: yeah exactly. i bought that record from the "weird" section of the record store in ithaca ny and brought it home and thought it would scare my mom but she was like "i loved the wombles when i was a kid"